Big Data Virtual Meetup Chennai

Recorded on October 29th, 2014

Big Data is moving to the next level of maturity and it’s all about the applications. Dhruv Kumar, one of the minds behind Cascading, the most widely used and deployed development framework for building Big Data applications, will discuss how Cascading can enable developers to accelerate the time to market for their data applications, from development to production. In this session, Dhruv will introduce how to easily and reliably develop, test, and scale your data applications and then deploy them on Hadoop and Hortonworks Data Platform. He will also explain the growth behind Cascading and talk about Cascading’s future with Tez.

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